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mrlipring · 29-01-2005, 15:45

by NTL, it was. Not by anyone but them.

Thing is, it's a hard term to define. With practically the rest of the modern world ahead of us in terms of speed (but hey, generally our network infrastructure is a pieced together piece of ****. It's all being made to run on old ****ty cabling. BT, buldog, etc are doing a lot of work to squeeze the last drops from the network) the websites that stream video, generally one of the main selling points of BB, are more geared towards the faster speeds. 300KBPS seems to be an absolute minimum, so allowing for overheads etc, you're looking at a half meg connection to be the bare mimimum. I'd have to agree. Sure, i'd love to have a 10mbit pipe, but that's not gonna happen any time soon.

Actually though, thinking about it, the networks would be better off giving us higher speeds. With 10mbit i could do all my downloading off-peak (sure, with the higher speeds, i could download more, but i don't think i'd have all that much to download) and play halo 2 the rest of the time. My connection would be idle a whole lot more.

Not that peak/off-peak means anything when transferring data across the world...

29-01-2005, 15:45	#8
mrlipring Inactive Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Glasgow Age: 44 Services: PCI DVB-T Freeview NTL Digital NTL 3mbit NTL phone Posts: 421	Re: UK Internet and the Rest of the World by NTL, it was. Not by anyone but them. Thing is, it's a hard term to define. With practically the rest of the modern world ahead of us in terms of speed (but hey, generally our network infrastructure is a pieced together piece of **. It's all being made to run on old **ty cabling. BT, buldog, etc are doing a lot of work to squeeze the last drops from the network) the websites that stream video, generally one of the main selling points of BB, are more geared towards the faster speeds. 300KBPS seems to be an absolute minimum, so allowing for overheads etc, you're looking at a half meg connection to be the bare mimimum. I'd have to agree. Sure, i'd love to have a 10mbit pipe, but that's not gonna happen any time soon. Actually though, thinking about it, the networks would be better off giving us higher speeds. With 10mbit i could do all my downloading off-peak (sure, with the higher speeds, i could download more, but i don't think i'd have all that much to download) and play halo 2 the rest of the time. My connection would be idle a whole lot more. Not that peak/off-peak means anything when transferring data across the world...